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Frederic William Maitland

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Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906) was a British historian and jurist.  His lectures, along with such writings as History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895; written with Sir Frederic Pollock) and English Law and the Renaissance (1901), are among the best treatments of their subjects and left a profound stamp on English legal history.